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It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:35 pm
by BobMann
Got a new Dell r610.
http://orthodoxstudios.com/r610.jpg
This thing is beautiful.
2x Quad core Xeons @ 2.27 GHz
6x 146 GB, 15k RPM in RAID 5
24 GB of RAM
I have no idea what to do with this thing.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:25 am
by Jackolantern
Very nice! I guess just hang on to it for when you need a server, and then there you go lol
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:18 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
wow! Very awesome. I am jealous.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:43 pm
by vitinho444
Im sorry to be a newb, is it a pc? It doesn't seem like one, but i agree with jacko a server would kick ass in that thing. Maybe a cloud server.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:30 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
Its a server.
Oh a IR fps game or persistant building game would be awesome but I do not know any good free ones.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:20 pm
by Jackolantern
vitinho444 wrote:Im sorry to be a newb, is it a pc? It doesn't seem like one, but i agree with jacko a server would kick booty in that thing. Maybe a cloud server.
It is what is called a "rack-mounted server". It is specifically designed to fit onto huge data center racks along with dozens or even hundreds of other servers. In large data centers many servers will share one monitor, and you click a button to change which server is displaying on it (or all display output can be done remotely). The several HDDs are also ejectable, and slide in and out of the server in cartridges, allowing a filled HDD to be taken out and archived as needed, or to allow fast replacement of failed hard drives. These types of servers are designed to provide as much computing power as possible while being as cost, space, maintenance and energy efficient as possible.
Of course, you don't need a big data center or even a server rack to use servers like this. You can just hook them up like regular computers.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:49 pm
by BobMann
It's only use so far is my web server and file server.
This thing is so disappointingly quiet over my old 1950.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:13 pm
by vitinho444
What is a cost of a thing like that?
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:53 pm
by BobMann
A lot.
I picked this up slightly used for $500. Brand new would have been more then I earn in a year.
Re: It's like Christmas around here
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:38 pm
by hallsofvallhalla
$500,000!!!
